Hackeo urbano: prácticas artísticas para una mediación educativa y ciudadanía pro-activa

Abstract

Urban environments in large cities are often designed by organizations disconnected to people, their memory, experiences and inequalities. The resulting urban pattern ends up being a discontinuous layout, through which we move between different nodes, impoverishing the intermediate spaces; in other words, the frictions that occur in public space.
Against this kind of development, many artistic initiatives are detected and will be studied in the course of this article, in which citizens acquire an active role in the city through the generation or reconfiguration of urban spaces. The artistic tools of this methodology are made up of micro-actions with a participatory approach; experimental and educational. It seems that they are the ones who allow us to imagine a new city and its possibilities. We would therefore understand these practices as urban hacking, where hacking refers to the fact of transforming and intervening the city code, in order to achieve new goals.